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‘They call us Nazis’: inside the wealthy German town where the far right is on the rise
(www.theguardian.com)
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Indeed. And you shouldn't be led astray by that tactic in your own analysis, it should still be purely material.
You can then argue "we need to counter that narrative" and that's also true, however, countering a narrative in a way that doesn't make sense to people is also not a good idea, to wit, people having the impression of "the left doesn't care about the small people". Don't allow the right to push you into that trap. That, precisely, would be falling for their tactic.
Like, I've seen people on here, mostly from .ml domains, calling Germany's policy of automatically handing Ukrainian refugees work permits racist because other refugee groups are treated differently. But the reason is simple: Ukrainians don't exert pressure on the low-wage sector, meaning they're not taking away jobs from people having trouble getting a job. Individual people from other countries also don't exert that pressure and also get work permits, on an individual basis. Ukrainians not needing individual work permits is a recognition of the fact that their education system is en-par with that of Greece, far far above other conflict-torn source countries.
The US (which I assume many of those posters are from) does that filtering before people even arrive, try getting a work visa in the US without being sponsored by an employer. Not an option if there's no ocean between you and whatever country the yanks are destabilising today.